Recycled material

Recycled material

An even number of twenty (20) experienced men showed up at Carmel Park this morning for the uneven running of this edition of DMZ.  YHC went with the original, unoriginal plan:  find a big hill and run up it.  Here’s what happened:

The Thang

5:29 – One minute warning and quick disclaimer

5:30 – Roll out to RTS back parking lot, circle up for warm up / COP (all in cadence):

SSH – 15x
Mtn climbers – 15x
IW – 15x
LBCs – 30x
Flutters – 15x
Merkins – 7x hold
Diamonds – 7x – recover

Mosey around RTS, across Sharon View, and into Pellyn Wood.  Stop in front of new home construction for quick warning to keep noise level down after Snoop riled up the guard dogs last time.  Mosey to the bottom of Howland Ln.  Full Jacob’s Ladder on the hill.  Plank when finished.

Mosey back out of Pellyn Wood, across Sharon View, and to the back parking lot of RTS.  Circle up for the following:

Widearms – 10x
LBCs – 20ish
Boone LBCs – 10 each side

Mosey back to Carmel Park and enter the tennis courts.  Partner up.

Partner carry across with 5 squats at each line (flapjack back)
Partner wheelbarrow across with 5 derkins at each line (flapjack back)
Partner crabwalk across one court (flapjack back)
Full suicide touching every line

Mosey out to parking lot for COT (watch turned to 6:16 as I exited the gate)

Announcements

Epic F3 trip to Peru – http://f3nation.com/2015/03/01/f3-mission-trip-epic-peru-2015/
F3 trip to Haiti – http://f3nation.com/2015/01/25/f3-to-haiti-2015/
HDHH to benefit F3 trip to Nicaragua – Wednesday at Mellow Mushroom in Ballantyne

F3 Golf – http://f3nation.com/2015/02/04/the-2nd-annual-f3-golf-classic/ – anyone want to put a team together?

Support team Chepul Hill for brain cancer research – http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/site/TR/TeamraiserEvents/CharlotteBrainTumorRace?team_id=71982&pg=team&fr_id=2420

Moleskine

Awesome weather this morning!  Great weather caused something of a change of plans because I didn’t want to waste it.  I had a very old school, core / minimal running workout planned (opposite of what I normally do), but weather like that after this winter…well, we had to run a little more.  Interestingly, some still felt the need for sleeves and pants despite mid-50s.

I didn’t check my watch, but Flutie clocked it at 3 miles.  Seems about right since we didn’t venture to the end of Pellyn this time.  One Eye led the Jacob’s ladder #wiretowire followed by Agony, who then proceeded to refusenik the plank #camodoesnothidewhiteshirts.  For all the well deserved grief he gets for amazingly poor burpee form (I think the inclusion of the dry dock somewhere in the mix makes it seem worse than it may actually be), Chelms was not far behind.  That’s meant as a legit compliment, brother.  You always point it out that you were near the front when you get grief for burpee form, so I’m saving you the time spent typing the comment.

I’m not sure anyone in F3 has embraced their name with the joie de vivre of Who Dat aka big easy.  Love the enthusiasm!  Good work out there today.

Brushback had his return to DMZ, and somehow a winter of swinging KBs helped him get faster.  I picture TR nodding approval while reading this.  Welcome back!

The surprisingly minimal amount of Q heckling, mostly from Hamlet, was rightly ignored.  I expected more on the tennis court work, since that was just unpleasant, but it wasn’t to be.  That could be because of the plethora of lunge walks, but I guess there are lots of bad backs in F3.  I have to give the assist for the partner crab walk to Double D’s, I think – correct me if I’m wrong Baracus, who rolled that out at the 1-year anniversary of The Charge.

Overheard Bushwood saying that Steinbrenner is on IR – godspeed on the recovery.

Two things I learned about Hops today:  1) runs faster backward than forward and 2) heavier than me (all muscle he said), which I didn’t appreciate on the partner carry squats.  He also epitomized what a site Q should do, circling back and bringing up the six as we made our way back to Carmel.  The help was appreciated.

Gents – thanks for following me today.  I appreciate the opportunity to lead you all and consider it a privilege.  I enjoyed it and hope everyone else got a little better as a result.

I probably missed a lot, so feel free to add it in the comments.

-Kirk